Commandments About Sacrifice
21 biblical commandments from the Torah related to sacrifice.
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Do not sacrifice blemished animals even if offered by those who are not part of the Covenant
Leviticus 22:25
nor shall you accept any such from the hand of a foreigner for offering as the food of your God; for their corruption is in them, they have a defect, they shall not be accepted for you.'"
Salt all sacrifices
Leviticus 2:13
'Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
Do not omit the salt from sacrifices
Leviticus 2:13
'Every grain offering of yours, moreover, you shall season with salt, so that the salt of the covenant of your God shall not be lacking from your grain offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.
Do not eat the meat of minor sacrifices before sprinkling the blood
Deuteronomy 12:15
"However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, whatever you desire, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and the deer.
Offer all sacrifices in the Temple
Deuteronomy 12:11
then it shall come about that the place in which the LORD your God will choose for His name to dwell, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the contribution of your hand, and all your choice votive offerings which you will vow to the LORD.
Bring all sacrifices from outside Israel to the Temple
Deuteronomy 12:26
"Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses.
Do not slaughter sacrifices outside the Temple
Leviticus 17:3
"Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,
Do not offer any sacrifices outside the courtyard
Deuteronomy 12:13
"Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,
Offer two lambs for sacrifice every day
Numbers 28:3
"You shall say to them, 'This is the offering by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: two male lambs one year old without defect as a continual burnt offering every day.
Do not eat sacrifices which have become unfit or blemished
Deuteronomy 14:3
"You shall not eat any detestable thing.
Do not eat from sacrifices offered with improper intentions
Leviticus 7:18
So if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings should ever be eaten on the third day, he who offers it will not be accepted, and it will not be reckoned to his benefit. It shall be an offensive thing, and the person who eats of it will bear his own iniquity.
Do not leave sacrifices past the time allowed for eating them
Leviticus 22:30
"It shall be eaten on the same day, you shall leave none of it until morning; I am the LORD.
Do not eat from sacrifices which became impure
Leviticus 7:19
Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.
An impure person must not eat from sacrifices
Leviticus 7:20
'But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the LORD, in his uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from his people.
Burn the leftover sacrifices
Leviticus 7:17
but what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
Burn all impure sacrifices
Leviticus 7:19
Also the flesh that touches anything unclean shall not be eaten; it shall be burned with fire. As for other flesh, anyone who is clean may eat such flesh.
Slaughter the paschal sacrifice at the specified time
Exodus 12:6
'You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.
Do not slaughter the paschal sacrifice while in possession of leaven
Exodus 23:18
"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.
Do not leave the fat of the paschal sacrifice overnight
Exodus 23:18
"You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor is the fat of My feast to remain overnight until morning.
Do not substitute another beast for one set apart for sacrifice
Leviticus 27:10
'He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.
Both an animal offered as a substitution as well as an animal set apart for sacrifice retain their consecration
Leviticus 27:10
'He shall not replace it or exchange it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; or if he does exchange animal for animal, then both it and its substitute shall become holy.